"What's So Bad About Being So-So?"

            Lisa Wilson’s Strick’s intention in writing “So what’s So Bad about Being So-So?” is to show how our society today has many interests they would love to pursue but in actuality won’t even try for the fear of being mediocre.

             I strongly agree that children today are being denied the satisfaction of being able to play without any requirements. As I was reading, I began to have flashbacks of events in which I had once wanted to try something that brought happiness to me but was shot down by others who had already mastered it. I recall having the opportunity to try theatre arts my freshman year of high school but not being able to pursue it for the fear of looked down upon. I remember going for three days and leaving. Every other teenager who was taking the same elective had already years of practice, and as I recall they told me I was “good” but not “put into practice”.